KNOM, May 14, 2014: Mysterious illness that’s been plaguing seals [first hit] the Bering Strait and the North Slope starting in the summer of 2011. Up to 300 seals were found suffering from hair loss, skin sores, and unusually lethargic behavior. Dozens of walruses were also found with similar sores [causing] marine mammal regulators to declare an Unusual Mortality Event [...] walrus have been taken off the UME [...] Seals [are still] displaying hair loss [...] University of Alaska Fairbanks have begun testing infected seal carcasses for [Fukushima] radiation [...] Results should be released in July.

Alaska Dispatch, May 13, 2014: An investigation into a mysterious disease that caused skin lesions and hair loss among Alaska and Russian walruses has been closed without identifying the root cause [...] The potential causes looked into [...] infections and endocrine disruptions. Also investigated was the possibility of contamination from the Fukushima nuclear plant [...] A preliminary investigation in 2012 concluded that radioactive contamination was not the likely cause. Investigators are now looking at the possibility of multiple causes [according to NOAA,] “the theory is that a number of factors contributed to the illness.”

Unusual Mortality Event, NOAA (pdf): [There's] a variety of changes in internal organs. Among the most striking is bloody fluid accumulation in the lungs (which are occasionally collapsed and/or discolored). Other changes include softened livers and a rare enlargement of the heart. […] Almost all the seals necropsied had some form of hepatitis or inflammation of the liver. [...] lymph nodes and the thymus have also shown consistent changes [...] enlarged lymph nodes [and] very reduced thymus glands in many of the young animals [that could] suggest widespread compromised immune systems [...] The fact that four different species of ice-associated seals had hair loss suggests a common cause [...] hair follicles exhibit degenerative changes, with mostly inactive follicles […] results from Canada, Russia, and/or Japan? […] Real time information sharing on diagnostic results and disease dynamics is ongoing with Russia and Japan. […]

[3] Tissues may be congested, and blubber underneath lesions may be fluid-filled or have focal areas of inflammation

[4] Lymph nodes are often enlarged and swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid. Lymph nodes may also look yellow and/or mottled. This shows the typical look of the lungs, which is very consistent between cases.

"Already experts both inside and outside of Japan are questioning the value of the project and suggesting alternative means to solve the groundwater contamination problems. Toyoshi Fuketa, a member of the new, independent Nuclear Regulation Authority, is among them:

"We need to know if the frozen wall is truly effective," Fuketa told the Japan Times. "More importantly, will it cause unforeseen problems?"

Such thoughts have been echoed by Dale Klein, a former chairman of the U.S. nuclear industry safety body Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who now works as a consultant in Japan. He instead suggests digging wells and pumping the water into the ocean, thereby bypassing the plant."

Dale Klein says ..just pump it straight into the ocean.
Perhaps he could take a sand pail and go help.

And so the reign of the mammals begins to draw to a close, caused in no small part by the hubris of the hairless apes, who believed themselves gods, but who had more in common with the nether regions of an 'Equus africanus asinus'.

My favorite nuke pimp site – Forbes, please drop a comment there
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Well it pretty clear that nuclear is not even in the ballpark of being competitive anymore. In order to make nuclear "pretty safe" a lot of costs and regulations have been imposed on nuclear.

Kewaunee was selling into a retail rate of 14 cents per Kilowatthour KWH. Kewaunee could not compete at that rate. Madison Wisconsin cancelled a contract with Dominion, preferring instead to have an aggressive solar electric power purchase agreement and buying from nat gas plants.http://www.electricitylocal.com/states/wisconsin/madison/

Theo Theofanous says no radiation..
My..my that's a far cry from ..describing the 4-6 cores stored in Unit 4 ..fire and collapse.
Ya..he better get to saying something.
Because those spewing the 'party line'' will be watched closer than even the opposition…for the rest of their days.

I did some calculation to "bring it home" —just the amount of "low level" waste they want to still put into WIPP, is enough to, if spread evenly among all humans, animals, fish, plankton, plants of all sorts, to bring the entire world up to 70 Bq/lb.

I read a whole WIPP report, they are brutal to read. But amazing truths jump out at you. They pretend that WIPP is only for Transuranics (Plutonium and higher) but it is not, they are stashing a hundred different isotopes in there, including some old favorites like Cesium and Strontium!

In the report they state the future incoming radiation inventory, its 9.81E16 Bq, add 16 zeros.

If you take all of the living things on earth and calculate total mass and divide the Bq by that you get

70 Bq per lb. Into every living thing on earth

Just what is planned to go into WIPP is enought to contaminate every thing on earth to very dangerous levels.

I have found so many articles from Europe about all the radiation that fell on Europe, and of course the plume passed over North America first, and these fools are still mystified why all the animals, and sea creatures are dying "mysteriously"

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2013.03.072
This is an article on Xenonhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.10.013
"Samples containing measurable quantities of 133Xe were obtained at multiple IMS stations in the weeks following the earthquake. This analysis is limited to data collected on the Pacific Ocean island of Oahu and four North American locations: Sidney, Vancouver BC, Richland, WA, Ashland, KS, and Charlottesville, VA. The transport distance from the release site in Japan ranged from about 6200 km for Oahu to 10,800 km for Charlottesville. Some samples are also available for the IMS sampler in Takasaki, Japan. We chose not to include these samples because we do not currently have access to the high-resolution atmospheric data needed to accurately estimate dilution factors a short distance from the release point."

Dr. Helen Caldicott talks how plutonium fallout specifically leads to 'Teratogensis: Production of developmental malformations or the production or induction of malformations or monstrosities, esp. in an embryo or fetus' mainly because PU is an iron analogue and pretty much free to travel anywhere in a body esp. able to cross the placenta walls.

Newer research still working on cause and effect.

'Neuroscientists find link between agenesis of the corpus callosum and autism'

"…The corpus callosum is the largest connection in the human brain, connecting the left and right brain hemispheres via about 200 million fibers. In very rare cases it is surgically cut to treat epilepsy—causing the famous "split-brain" syndrome, for whose discovery the late Caltech professor Roger Sperry received the Nobel Prize. People with AgCC are like split-brain patients in that they are missing their corpus callosum—except they are born this way. In spite of this significant brain malformation, many of these individuals are relatively high-functioning individuals, with jobs and families, but they tend to have difficulty interacting with other people, among other symptoms such as memory deficits and developmental delays. These difficulties in social behavior bear a strong resemblance to those faced by high-functioning people with autism spectrum disorder…"http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-04-neuroscientists-link-agenesis-corpus-callosum.html

…but something is not working right with wikileaks. Where is the stuff on WTC demo, which is the keystone? Where is the stuff on Fukushima? British Petroleum? Where is all the fascist dirt that must be piled so high you need a backhoe just to shovel it?

Initial talks between the government and TEPCO agreed that only water with 1,500 becquerels of radiation or less per liter could be released. Tests conducted by TEPCO and two outside agencies have revealed that the Fukushima underground water met the standards, averaging 220 to 240 becquerels of tritium per liter.

The source of the radioactive leak at the earthquake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was finally identified by the facility’s operator TEPCO to be in the primary containment vessel of reactor 3, authorities reported.

Well the screwed part is all people really can relate too, like all the people who recently lost their homes to foreclosure or short sales, jobs, marriages and drained bank accounts while paying 100% inflation from the funny money printing of the Fed the last 16 years.

The illusion of prosperity is just that, an illusion, created for the few who are on the inside track of the ongoing Zeitgeist Matrix Ponzi Scheme.

So did the lost of any of the above items catch anyone's personal attention when it/they occurred?

Hi…this is my favourite site on the net. A friend and I have been monitoring radiation with a PRM 8000 for 2 years now. I purchased a PRM 9000 this year and recently took it on a trip from Pt Hardy to Ketchikan in April. There were no deviations from the local background here of 25-35 CPM along the W coast of Canada. I'm doing another run this summer, and hoping to have some gamma spectrography equipment aboard to ID individual isomers and isotopes. Also plan to sail up current (offshore) for 400 miles or so to test for whatever in July…Thanx everybody.

Off the coast of Texas (Padre Island) just last year, my PRM-9000 measured 3-4 times background levels just holding the device right above sand and seaweed (60's-90's CPM). I wish I knew what levels were like before 2011.

all the scientist (most I should say) after all of the schooling,studies,tests,observations and still a mystery????Seems to me they are slaves to the $$.Meat puppets for the government.So sad for the lack of truth from them.I used to admire them for their search for real truth,now starting to loath them.all I hear is "BLAH BLAH BLAH"with a xtra large pile of steaming Bull-Dinky,with a cherry on top .My Truth is that Almighty God is the only One can cleanse the earth,the home we wrecked .I cant wait !:)

The explanation is simple to me, the sea ice was at max extent when accident happened, you had two core vapiourized and one unknown, so we're ice was in surface of water all kinds of radioactive substances landed on ice and accumulated, seal live on ice and have there pups on ice, seals noses are on ice and they must have breathed in lots of radioactive isotopes, when ice melted the radioactive isotopes were realeased in concentration.
But everything is under control according to tepco, B.S.
The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth from the Weeman.

I did some calculation to "bring it home" —just the amount of "low level" waste they want to still put into WIPP, is enough to, if spread evenly among all humans, animals, fish, plankton, plants of all sorts, to bring the entire world up to 70 Bq/lb.

And animals at 30 Bq/lb start having severe health problems

Note that even thought the Remote Handled Waste is only 4% of the waste by volume, it is 3/7th of the total radioactivity.

Per the former WIPP lab manager, James Conca, they have stuff in WIPP way hotter than anything at Hanford, 7 Curies per liter. That is enough to bring 1,000,000,000 Costco size chickens up to 200 Bq/lb.

Again, severe damage is done to animals at 30 Bq/lb. You can't sell any animals over 100 Bq/lb as food even though they are being "diluted" by other food.

I finally created this post into an article at Nuke Pro so those who wish can link to it.

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